Learn how you can bring in video clips, photos, and audio files into Adobe Premiere Rush CC for editing. Also learn about the supported file formats that you can import into Premiere Rush.

You can bring in your video clips, photos, graphics, and audio files that you have stored on your computer or your external drive. You can also bring in media from your Creative Cloud, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and Google Drive using the Media Browser in Premiere Rush.

Nota:

If you are trying out Premiere Rush for the first time, you can bring in the sample media packaged with the application to create your first video.

Cloud: Media stored in the cloud such as in Creative Cloud, or iCloud.

Network (only shown if more drives are mounted to the device): Media stored in network-mounted drives.

The right side displays your content.

You can use the filters on the lower left to filter and sort your media:

Sort: You can sort media by name or date created.

Filter: You can filter media by all media, videos only, audio only, or images only.

The Media Browser allows you to quickly and easily find the media you want to use in your Premiere Rush projects. You can preview the media in the media browser before bringing it into a project by clicking the expand preview button under each clip (on desktop) or long/force pressing a clip (on mobile). From there, you can also select a certain portion of that clip if you only need a short snippet of a longer video clip.

Create a project and add media files

When you launch Premiere Rush and start a new project, select and import your media. You can import media on your computer or in the cloud (such as Creative Cloud or iCloud). If you are connected to an office network, you can also import media from a network location.

On the home screen, select Create a New Project.

You can now add photos, videos, and audio clips saved on your computer, in the cloud, or in a shared network location.

Add media files

To select media, click it. Select your media in the order you want it to appear on the timeline.

Premiere Rush marks all the clips in the order you select them and arranges them at the bottom of the screen in a storyboard. It allows you to preview how the media is going to be assembled in the timeline.

If you are not satisfied with the order of the assets, you can deselect them by clicking them. You can then select your assets again in the order in which you want them to appear.

Select Sync with Creative Cloud if you want your video project to be saved to the cloud so that you can access it across your mobile devices and desktop. All of your edits are synced to the cloud, so you always have the latest version of your project across your devices. Select Copy Media if you want to save a copy of the selected media on your device; it is useful if you are importing media from a detachable device.

Premiere Rush saves the media in the folder that you specify in the Preferences dialog. By default, the media is stored in Premiere Rush/Imported Media folder.

Click Create.

After you click Create Premiere Rush automatically adds all of your selected media to a sequence (by default, named Sequence 01), and the project is available for you to start editing in the Edit workspace.

Add media files to existing projects

To add media to your project while editing, click the + icon in the left toolbar, and then select Media. The Media Browser opens on the left of the application. Use the navigation buttons at the top to view folders and select your media. After you have selected all of your media, click Add.

Add media to existing project

Premiere Rush adds the media that you have selected into the sequence. They appear in the timeline where the playhead is positioned.

Add portion of clip to existing project

When you add media from the Media Browser, you can choose to add a portion of the clip.

From the Media Browser, select the media that you want to add.

Click the “expand icon” below the thumbnail of the media to open up a larger preview of the clip. Here you can play the clip, and choose the portion you want to add to your project.

Add media

On the timeline in the Large Preview, you can choose the portion of the clip to add. Once you have selected the portion, click the + icon near the control options to add the selection. You can repeat this procedure on all the clips you want to edit.